Top Christening Gifts

Christenings are special occasions of social and religious importance. Bringing a baby in the world of God is a moment to remember and many people like to highlight the ceremony with a gift. But what kinds of things are proper for a christening gift? Here’s a list to help you out.

A bible

If the parents are christening the baby for true spiritual reasons (and not because everyone else does it), then offering a Bible is always proper. There are illustrated, simplified bibles for children that will give them the sacred story in a way they can understand. Offering a full Bible is also a great gift, as the child will grow up curious to read it on his or her own.

A cross or a rosary

Crosses and rosaries are traditional christening gifts that the child will wear for years to come. Choose a high quality silver or gold cross that can be switched on a longer chain as the child grows up. Some people wear their christening cross for their entire lives and give it away as heirloom to their own children.

Baptism blanket

Handmade, knitted blankets for the christening day are a special gift that all parents (and babies) will appreciate. It will keep the baby warm in draughty churches and feel safe swaddled in their parents’ arms. Choose a soft, non-scratchy white yarn of cotton or cashmere wool.

Professional pictures

Offer a gift certificate for a professional child photographer. Parents and families love to take pictures of children growing up, but the photos that remain up are usually those taken by a professional photographer. It’s a thoughtful, neutral gift for someone not so religiously-inclined.

Newspapers

What happened the day the baby was born? What happened on his or her christening day? One day the child may ask these questions, and keeping newspapers from these special dates will give you an occasion to discuss your child’s history with him or her. It gives a link to the past and brings up interest in personal and social history.

Charity donations

You can also give money to a charity of your choice in the child’s name. Adopting a wild animal, contributing to a poverty campaign or even have a tree planted are all great ways to honor the child while helping someone or something in the world. Offer a picture or a keepsake of the donation for remembrance.

Calendars

For low budgets, printing a personalized calendar is a great idea. Use family pictures and put everything that a parent might need: measurements, important dates and other events that need to be remembered. It’ll be a cherished helper for months to come!
Baby gifts come in all shapes and forms and you shouldn’t feel constrained by tradition if you want to be more creative. No matter if you’re religious or not, a christening present needs to be special, personalized and help remind parents and children of this special day. All they need now is your presence!

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At Home Again and Blue Corners

I was at home again since last Thursday. From Surabaya (East Java, Indonesia), we rode a night train that brought us to Jakarta (capital city of Indonesia). Arrived at Jatinegara train station in the next morning, we reached my BIL’s house in Jakarta by a taxi. We couldn’t go back home straightly as our car was at my BIL’s house.

In past few days, we’re busy with some home repairs. There are leakages in some spots on the roof. The line telephone is still malfunction. My husband has conveyed complaints to the costumer service of the telecommunication company since a few days ago, but until today, there aren’t yet officers who coming to fix the problem.

How’s your weekend? We go nowhere this weekend. While my husband was busy with the home repairman, I was just relaxing and watching TV.

For Blue Monday, here are blue corners that captured in my husband’s hometown. The kid corner was inside my FIL’s home and the other corner is a shop belongs to the neighbor that located right on the corner of the street.

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Safe Fragrance for Your Family

Many people love smelling their favorite scents at their homes, so do I. Don’t you notice that there is a wide variety of fragrance products available in the market nowadays? One kind of fragrance items that you often see in stores is fragranced burning candles. I’ve ever purchased some scented candles and burned it at my bedroom. I enjoyed the scent, but not its smoke. Inhaling smoke can endanger your and your family’s health!

Since your family’s safety and health is always becoming your most concern, you should always choose harmless products. That’s why I much recommend Scentsy Candles; as it’s very different with traditional candles. Scentsy candle system is smokeless; you can get pleasure from the wonderful scent and mood lighting!

Visit Scentsified.com to know more about Scentsy products. You’ll love Scentsy Warmer, an electric wax warmer that applies a light bulb to release the incredible scent into the air. There’s no burning process, so, there also won’t be harmful things such as smoke, fire and stain. It’s really perfect for your home!

Scentsy offers more than 80 wonderful scents of Scentsy Bars. You can place several Scentsy Bars on the top of a Scentsy Warmer. Once you turn on the warmer, you’ll enjoy your favorite scent straight away.

At Scentsified.com, you can get other high quality Scentsy fragrance products that don’t use electricity. To attain wonderful scent whenever and wherever you need; you can try travel tins, room sprays, Scentsy Buddy, solid perfume, and fragrance foam. There’s no doubt, Scentsy products are safe for your family!

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A Hairy Yellow Caterpillar

This yellow caterpillar was easily noticed as it’s walking on our black home fence. Since I’m afraid of caterpillars, taking pictures of a caterpillar wasn’t an easy job for me. Seeing it made me cringe! Do you?

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Getting Benefits from Using the Best Plumbing Products

When it comes to home plumbing system, you must use tubing and pipes that keep sturdy and elastic from temperatures under freezing to 200 degrees F. All PEX products have the required characteristic; that’s why it’s appropriate to be applied in home plumbing system where the temperatures may change by climate and water temperature.

Plumbing with PEX tubing will give you some advantages, such as the solid tubing will reduce expansion and contraction problem that can happen while bonding PVC to copper or galvanized pipe; and the flexible tubing will ease your work as you don’t need to glue PVC fitting in each bend. PEX tubing won’t rust and it’s well-matched with existing metal pipe. You won’t face any hassle if you want to make any improvement.

Whenever you search for heating and plumbing supplies, you can find it at PexUniverse.com. If you want to link lots of pipes to main water sources, you’ll require a PEX manifold that will help you to control the pressure inside the pipes. You can also easily handle several water supplies around your house. With PEX manifold, you don’t need closing the full system, but only arranging the specific pipe. With large benefits of using PEX manifold, it’s no wonder if there are many people have used it in their water supply installation.

In every plumbing project, using proper and high quality tools like PEX tool is very important. To guarantee a clean cut end, you must slice the tube with a good PVC cutter. The different kind of connection will require the different tool. For example; if you apply an in-line fitting, you’ll need a clamp-ring crimping tool.

There’s no need to search for high quality tools anymore, as PexUniverse.com has offered a wide variety of PEX tool for you; from cutters, crimping tools to clip guns. You’ll get the tool that most suits your needs. To handle all your plumbing and heating needs, you can rely on PEXUniverse.com!

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6 Ways to Create the Perfect Kids Birthday Party

There shouldn’t be any feeling other than excitement at planning a birthday party for your young child. The best parties are a reminder to us of how great it is to be young and hopefully makes us think back to fond memories of our own birthday parties as children. Unfortunately, often these parties turn out to be a lot more stressful than they need to be. It can be easy to over-think things and crack under the pressure to make the day perfect. Here are 6 ways to help you create a birthday party that is nothing than a whole lot of simple, pure fun.

1. Send invitations out well in advance.Printing and sending out cute invitations to all those invited is absolutely key. You need to make sure all your child’s friends and their parents can make the occasion, so be sure to give plenty of notice. It also helps to put an RSVP date on the invites, so that you can get an idea of exact numbers. Knowing exactly how many will be attending will make planning everything else for the party a whole lot easier.

2. Invite as many parents as you can.It’s unlikely that all the parents will be able to come, but making sure that they know they are all welcome will help take the pressure off on the day. A large number of children, who’ve all consumed a large amount of sugar, can be a significant challenge to keep under control.

If you make sure to provide some entertainment for the parents who attend, the day will run a lot smoother and you will find you are able to relax and enjoy the party.

3. Fancy dress.This is the simplest way to create a fun environment for the children. Everyone loves an occasion to dress up, and role-playing will be the easiest way to keep the kids preoccupied for hours and hours.

There’s no need to come up with an elaborate theme: something simple like ‘what I want to be when I grow up’ or ‘favourite character’ is all you need. This means the other parents don’t need to worry about purchasing a new costume, and all the fairies, princesses, pirates and peter pans will make for great photos and help create an exciting atmosphere.

4. Balloons, bubbles, music.
This is essentially all you need to create the perfect party atmosphere. Have a bunch of kid’s albums ready to play so you don’t go crazy from hearing the same music over and over. The kids probably won’t mind but you certainly will! And never underestimate the power of bubbles in providing hours of entertainment. So simple, yet so effective.

5. Get creative with the birthday cake.This is always the highlight of the day, so it deserves a bit of attention. Visit your local bookstore or library for ideas on creating a cake that stands out.

You could also look into creating a birthday cake out of a lot of mini cupcakes, which has become quite popular recently. A lot of nicely iced little cupcakes can look very impressive and take the pressure off making sure that the one birthday cake is decorated to perfection. Of course, the easiest option is always to simply purchase the cake or rope someone else into baking it for you.

6. Take lots of photos on the day.
You will regret it if you don’t. Children typically enjoy having photos taken, and it really is to your benefit to document the special day.

After the occasion, you can use your local printing services to send some of the pictures to the other parents, or create an album from the day that will make for a great memento. If you’ve followed the steps outlined here, the party will have been a success and you deserve to have something special to remind you of it.

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Water in Gentong

Gentong is a large bowl for water. Yesterday, my husband and I visited Sunan Ampel Mosque in Surabaya (East Java, Indonesia). The mosque was built in 1421 and it’s already becoming a famous destination of religious tour.

Around the mosque and graves of righteous men, there are several large bowls that contain fresh water from the natural water source nearby. The water is ready to drink and provided for every visitor in the area.

Watery Wednesday

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